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View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Reached & What This Means for Singapore’s...
Free trade agreements (FTA) are as crucial to Singapore as water. If you want to know the value of water, try not drinking water for one day. The thirst will make you appreciate water more. In the same...
View ArticleThe Tortoise & the Hare: How Investors Can Avoid the Hot Hand Fallacy
Investing is not necessarily an activity where the smartest person always wins the race. Just like the parable about the tortoise and the hare, there are times where being slow and steady wins you the...
View ArticleLessons for Singapore from China’s Third Equity Meltdown in Seven Months
China is the second largest economy in the world. There used to a saying that if the United States catches a flu, the world will get sick. This analogy is now being used on China now. The fact that...
View Article3 Reasons Why Oil Prices Have Fallen over 70% and the Winners & Losers from...
In this article, we are going to look at the causes behind the 74% plunge in oil prices from a peak of $106.78 per barrel in June 2014 to a low of $27.10 on January 20. In order to give you an...
View Article5 Reasons Why the Bank of Japan Introduced Negative Interest Rates
Negative interest rates used to be an exclusively European affair where only the central banks of Europe, Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden dared to venture. Japan became the first Asian country to...
View Article2 Reasons Why the Fed Refused to Raise Interest Rates This Month
The Federal Reserve last raised interest rates by 25 basis points on 16 December 2015. That was the first rate hike in nearly a decade. During that historic meeting, the Fed framed market expectations...
View ArticleMAS moves to protect Singapore’s economy with surprise easing
The Singapore economy grew at a respectable rate of 1.8% on a quarterly basis for Q1/2016 which was above analysts’ expectations of 1.6%. Despite the decent growth, the Monetary Authority of Singapore...
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